If you have a spare hour please what this program:
From your question above: One of the best ways we can help, as they tell us, is to get out of the way, so that when they are creating self-determination and working on improving their lives, we don't interfere with do-good-from-top-down programs that endlessly backfire.
Many times if you give people things without requiring work. You take the self respect from a person. Not that we should not help but it should be with responsiblity and which instills self respect. We used to have a work requirement in the US but that have started not enforcing it.
So how about creating more jobs?
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When the state either creates or allows conditions of inequality and.poverty to foster the formation of disenfranchised groups, unavoidably, it will be faced with the inevitable effects of crime and illiteracy.
To say, as your post do, and as the member said above me,
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"One of the best ways we can help, as they tell us, is to get out of the way, so that when they are creating self-determination and working on improving their lives, we don't interfere with do-good-from-top-down programs that endlessly backfire."
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That is the oldest and tiredest argument of a government intent on evading their responsibilities and blaming the dispossessed for their misfortune. It says that even thought they do not have the same opportunities as everybody else, it's their fault if they do not achieve as much.
With this I mean the inner city blacks, Southern Poor Whites, and even the Natives in lands A thousand miles away.
(every day)
The "they" in my quote comes not from the government but from Aboriginals in Australia - in their discussions about how to deal with their problems, it is one of the things they say most frequently. Some of the "do-good" policies of the past included things like forcibly stealing half-caste children from their families and putting them up for adoption by white families, or putting them into orphanages where they were raised to become domestic servants and labourers. This affected an entire generation on Aboriginals in devastating ways and the rercussions are still continuing even now.
Despite that, there are some kinds of recent programs that have been very successful.
A community bus that picks kids up from their homes and takes them to school early - provision of a large healthy breakfast and lunch at school - the increase in nutrition makes a huge difference to attention and learning in class - and makes the kids keen to go to school.
Some communities have chosen to ban alcohol and drugs - and these are almost completely free of violence and abuse.
Free health care and medicine.
Arts, tourism, and ecology programs which provide jobs.
I checked first to see if I had used the word "everyday" incorrectly.
I found that I had not used it at all, nor anyone else.
So I'm guessing you mean that you find ways of helping to increase and create equality every day. :)
Would you share some examples?
Have cops shoot more white people.
How about having cops not shooting anyone?
How about inventing superfine filament nets which contract like cocoons on contact to prevent violence? That way anyone captured by mistake can easily be let go unharmed with an apology.
How about compulsory camera-recorders on all police uniforms which cannot be turned off. Live-feed back to station and designed so nothing can be erased.
